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Engineering Economics and Problem Solving: CHE 4N4

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Course outline Course videos from 2012 Copyright and other legal stuff Comments, questions, feedback? Don't wait for official course evaluations. Announcements (previous ones) Based on the course evaluation feedback, there is now a discussion board available on the Avenue2Learn website. Please participate! Question for class on Thursday: Estimate the capital cost for a distillation column fabricated from 316 stainless steel, 26 trays at regular spacing of 0.6m, operating at 3.2MPa. The column height is 21.3m and diameter of 2.3m. Solutions for both assignment 2 and 3 are available; see below. Paper copies will be returned in class on Thursday. Update on the midterm : the midterm has been rescheduled to 29 October 2012, starting at 19:00 (please be at the venue from 18:45 onwards). It will be written in T29, room 101.

Course overview Group work and chairperson skills Engineering economics Process safety Life-long and self-directed learning Process troubleshooting Dealing with uncertainty (reference only) Process operability Course pack for 2012

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Assignments/Tutorials Assignment questions will be available here. Parts of the assignments will be covered in the tutorial period. Personal finance SDL assignment/tutorial (Solutions covered in tutorial) Assignment 2: Time value of money (with solutions) Assignment 3: Profitability measures, depreciation, taxes and TVM (with solutions) Assignment 4: Sensitivity analysis, depreciation and taxes Assignment 5 Assignment 6 Assignment 7 Assignment 8 Assignment 9 New: Please follow these instructions when submitting electronically. Tests, exams and project Written midterm Self-directed learning project Final exam Practice questions for tests and exams Cover letter guidelines for written submissions